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...have a baby and failing--except perhaps finally succeeding and then discovering that there's something wrong with your child. That's why so many infertile couples were upset last year by a study showing that babies born through in-vitro fertilization had an 8.6% chance of having major birth defects--twice the expected risk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health: Perils of Pregnancy | 11/10/2003 | See Source »

...We’ve touched a nerve, and now you’re watching a birth of voices,” he said. As a result, the newly released DVD has a featurette that continues where the film left off. “I just had to create a whole other film,” Dubowski said...

Author: By Jayme J. Herschkopf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Trembling’ Director Confesses at HFA | 11/7/2003 | See Source »

Antiabortion forces celebrated a victory last week when Congress passed a bill barring so-called partial-birth abortion. But many observers--Democrats as well as some conservatives--doubt that the bill (which President Bush has vowed to sign into law) will be upheld by the Supreme Court since it differs little from a Nebraska law struck down by the high court by a 5-to-4 vote in 2000. The court ruled that because the Nebraska law did not contain an exception for cases in which the mother's health is at stake, it was unconstitutional. The new measure also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind An Antiabortion Victory | 11/3/2003 | See Source »

Potter, like Ruggiero, is a two-time Olympian, and has taken additional time off due to the birth of her first child. She is a one-woman scoring machine who owns records at her former school, the University of Minnesota, in goals, assists and points in a single season...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Everybody's Got a Hungry Heart | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

...shipwrecked woman by name of Spencer landed in Salem and founded the sweets company with little more than a donated barrel of sugar. Thus was the birth of the “Salem Gibralter,” the first commercially sold candy in the United States. Akin to an after-dinner mint that, according to candyman Ron, “melts in your mouth and not in your hand,” the pure sugar candy may lose its lemon or peppermint flavor but will never go bad. As proof, the Pepper Companie displays a jar of 173 year...

Author: By Christine Ajudua and Christina A. Traugott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Ye Olde Pepper Companie | 10/30/2003 | See Source »

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